Falsify \Fal"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Falsified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Falsifying.] [L. falsus false + -ly: cf. F.
falsifier. See False, a.]
1. To make false; to represent falsely.
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The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything
as they list, to please or displease any man.
--Spenser.
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2. To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.
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3. To prove to be false, or untrustworthy; to confute; to
disprove; to nullify; to make to appear false.
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By how much better than my word I am,
By so much shall I falsify men's hope. --Shak.
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Jews and Pagans united all their endeavors, under
Julian the apostate, to baffle and falsify the
prediction. --Addison.
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4. To violate; to break by falsehood; as, to falsify one's
faith or word. --Sir P. Sidney.
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5. To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow. --Butler.
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6. (Law) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment.
--Blackstone.
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7. (Equity) To show, in accounting, (an inem of charge
inserted in an account) to be wrong. --Story. Daniell.
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8. To make false by multilation or addition; to tamper with;
as, to falsify a record or document.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
falsify
v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or
story [syn: distort, garble, warp]
2: fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books";
"falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, cook,
wangle, misrepresent]
3: prove false; "Falsify a claim"
4: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct]
5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate,
alter]
[also: falsified]
WordNet (r) 2.0
falsified
See falsify
WordNet (r) 2.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "falsified":
affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus,
brummagem, colorable, colored, counterfeit, counterfeited,
distorted, dressed up, dummy, embellished, embroidered, ersatz,
factitious, fake, faked, feigned, fictitious, fictive, garbled,
illegitimate, imitation, junky, make-believe, man-made, mock,
perverted, phony, pinchbeck, pretended, pseudo, put-on, quasi,
queer, self-styled, sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant,
spurious, supposititious, synthetic, tin, tinsel, titivated,
twisted, unauthentic, ungenuine, unnatural, unreal, warped
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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